I popped up to Moorbrook for a few hours. There were plenty of fish moving due to the abundance of fly life, however there were also alot of fish sport on the surface due to the heat. I started on the buzzers and Diawl bach on midge tip to a few pulls but no luck, changed lakes and got 2 fish on, both broke on a sparse midge! It wasn't looking hopefull for the day, moved around and cast across the wind and moved the buzzers very slowly and bang FISH on, a perfect bar of silver on the black buzzer with orange tag( in the pic at end of report) stuck in the scissors. The day was looking up, at least i saved the blank I then switched onto the floating line because I thought the midge tip was pulling the flies down below the feeding level of the fish. I set up with the same buzzers with a cats whisker booby on the point to create a washing line, this method proved successful with a further 5 fish taking both buzzers and a lot of pulls and bites at the booby as you can see in this picture



I love the way the crystal hackle goes when it gets wet with the orange thread showing through. Around 5 o'clock I switched to a single fly using an emerging hawthorne, first cast and a fish rolled at it and I thought it missed it and i gave the line a pull resulting in it shooting off to the left, with that fish landed cast out again and as soon as the fly hit the water a fish rose and gulped fly down, I struck and had it on for about 10 seconds, I must not have set the hook properly. Moved on the the meadow and put a size 16 CDC hares ear f fly, fish hooked on 2nd cast and nothing more after this. I was happy with my day, even managed to get the t-shirt tan. This is a picture of the flies that caught me my fish.



Chris

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2009 ITFFA Inter-Provincial Champions - ULSTER

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